Word: rewind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy about the blurring of thedistinction between the public and the privatespheres," he says. "I think almost all Americans,including almost all journalists I know, wouldpush the rewind button on life and go back a yearand beg the President to settle the Paula Jonescase...
...alone in a dark room with the Queen of Hip-Hop. Back up. Rewind. There was light when you arrived; when you got here it was still before nightfall, and the New Jersey sky was the flat bluish-gray of an old fluorescent light. Riding in your car in the half-light, you came to a comfortable brick house on a comfortable, suburban, Truman Show-ish street; walking up, the door wasn't locked, it wasn't even closed, and it creaked open wider when you knocked. This ain't Compton, this ain't the Queensbridge projects, but this...
Faye has a hell of an answer. It's articulate, dramatic, compelling. And entirely nonresponsive. As if on rewind, she is telling her own story again...
...Watch one, watch the other: Unapologetic fans of old Hollywood will feel incomplete if they don't rewind at this point to 1931 for The Front Page. OK, it's the same movie -- the first screen version of the manic Hecht-MacArthur play. But it's just as good, which is more than can be said for the 1974 version with Walter Matthau or Switching Channels (1988) for that matter. Lesson: the remake game never works twice...
...Watch the games. Rewind the tapes. And if you're ever in Indianapolis, stop in for a bite at Bobby Plump's Last Shot. The food is inspirational...